12/19: Reaction To Early National Signing Day + Mario Cristobal
The Audible with Stew, Bruce & Ralph: A show about college football
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🗓️ 20 December 2018
⏱️ 78 minutes
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Summary
Bruce and Stew start this week's episode of The Audible discussing the biggest news from early signing day (1:00); they follow that by talking about the possible transfer of Georgia QB Justin Fields (4:15); Bruce is then joined by Oregon Head Coach Mario Cristobal (17:10); and they wrap up the podcast taking your questions in the mailbag (54:45).
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| 0:23.3 | You'll find Inside Trader Joe's on Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts. Welcome back to the latest edition of the Audubon. |
| 0:48.3 | I am Bruce Feldman, joined as often as the case by my colleague Stuart Mandel. |
| 0:52.9 | And we have an interesting podcast. |
| 0:54.8 | It is signing day. |
| 0:56.5 | And we were going to have a guy who had a huge day today. |
| 1:00.5 | And that's Oregon head coach Mario Cristobal, whose duck signed a top five class, which |
| 1:06.1 | is unprecedented up in Eugene. |
| 1:08.4 | We'll get to him in a little bit. |
| 1:10.1 | But before we do, Stu, some interesting things |
| 1:14.0 | have shaken out. I'm just curious as to how far down the rabbit hole did you get with recruiting |
| 1:20.4 | coverage at this point? I have to admit, you know, while I am a proponent of the early signing period, |
| 1:26.6 | I have not quite adapted to it myself. |
| 1:28.8 | I miss having all of January once the season was over and I had a little bit more time to fully immerse myself in all the names I need to know for the class that would sign in February. |
| 1:41.4 | Now you look up and whoa, they've all, you know know three quarters of them have already signed as of today but uh you know I'm following what's going |
| 1:49.4 | on it seems to me tell me if you agree that in our time covering the sport there's just |
| 1:55.0 | been like various phases of well now Pete Carroll's the hot recruiter and now or |
| 2:00.0 | Mac Brown and now Pete Carroll and then Urban Meyeriter and now, or Mac Brown, and now Pete Carroll, |
| 2:01.8 | and then Urban Meyer, and then Nick Saban. And Nick Saban's obviously been that for a long time now. |
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